| Audition winner's part, maybe | 33 |
| "Dancing With the Stars" rarity | 41 |
| It's just him or her on stage | 33 |
| Ozzy Osbourne became one in 1979 | 32 |
| Sean Hannity, lately, and others | 32 |
| Ones with the motto "One for the road"? | 49 |
| "American Idol" hopefuls | 34 |
| Iconic red draft beer conveyance | 32 |
| Finished a flight-training requirement | 38 |
| Charles Lindbergh's feat across the Atlantic | 48 |
| Male escorts working alone? (goes both ways) | 44 |
| Big step for a pilot-in-training | 32 |
| They're needed to become certified | 38 |
| Last king of a united Israel, in the Bible | 42 |
| One of the Seven Sages of Greece | 32 |
| One of the Seven Wise Men of ancient Greece | 43 |
| Athenian lawgiver who introduced trial by jury | 46 |
| One of Greece's Seven Wise Men | 34 |
| Parting words from the von Trapps | 33 |
| "Hi, New Year! ___" (end of verse) | 44 |
| Willa Cather story about single trailblazers? | 45 |
| Project without the band, perhaps | 33 |
| "American Idol" numbers | 33 |
| Some parts of Handel's "Messiah" | 46 |
| Prima donna's times to shine | 32 |
| They may veer from the main melody | 34 |
| Guitarists have them more often than drummers | 45 |
| Doesn't have a second to lose? | 34 |
| "American Idol" performances | 38 |
| ''American Idol'' numbers | 41 |
| Round-trippers with nobody aboard | 33 |
| Puzzle contestant who eschews aid | 33 |
| Like the "Down in the Valley" valley | 46 |
| "Down in the valley, the valley ___" | 46 |
| The sun gives comfort to top pilots | 35 |
| "Deadwood" entrepreneur | 33 |
| Longtime Chicago Symphony conductor | 35 |
| Longtime Chicago Symphony maestro | 33 |
| Sir Georg of the Chicago Symphony | 33 |
| Longtime Chicago Symphony leader | 32 |
| Chicago Symphony conductor Georg | 32 |
| Maestro who won the most Grammys | 32 |
| Maestro who won more than thirty Grammys | 40 |
| Longtime maestro with a "noted" name | 46 |
| Longtime Chicago Symphony Orchestra conductor | 45 |
| Long-time Windy City orchestra leader | 37 |
| Lifetime winner of the most Grammys (31) | 40 |
| Grammy-winning Chicago Symphony director | 40 |
| Georg who won more Grammys than anyone else | 43 |
| Georg of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra | 39 |
| Former Chicago Symphony conductor Georg | 39 |
| Former Chicago conductor Sir Georg | 34 |
| Eight-time Best Opera Recording Grammy winner | 45 |
| Conductor who won a record 31 Grammy Awards | 43 |
| Conductor who studied under Bartók | 37 |
| Conductor Georg who received 32 Grammys | 39 |
| Chicago Symphony director, 1969-91 | 34 |
| Conductor Georg got high praise from his peers? | 47 |
| Like most nitrate salts in water | 32 |
| Stage direction that means "alone" | 44 |
| It's dissolved into a solvent | 33 |
| Substance in a chemistry experiment | 35 |
| Dissolved substance, in chemistry classes | 41 |
| Correctly filled crossword grid, for example | 44 |
| Danish community near Santa Ynez, Calif. | 40 |
| Belgian chemist Ernest ___: 1838-1922 | 37 |
| Find the answer to, as an equation | 34 |
| Fill completely, as a crossword grid | 36 |
| Kaiser Chiefs "Problem ___" | 37 |
| Frequent problem faced by algebra students | 42 |
| In the black, like a dry cleaner? | 33 |
| Having enough money to cover expenses | 37 |
| Substances like water, vis-Ã -vis sugar | 41 |
| They're only temporarily puzzled | 36 |
| Accomplish today's objective? | 33 |
| "Brave New World" drug | 32 |
| "Brave New World" feel-good drug | 42 |
| Vedic drink for an immortal soul | 32 |
| Strokes "Is This It" song | 35 |
| Pumpkins "Siamese Dream" song | 39 |
| Popular block puzzle first put out in 1969 | 42 |
| Happiness drug in "Brave New World" | 45 |
| Drug in "Brave New World" | 35 |
| Dream-inducing "Brave New World" drug | 47 |
| "Brave New World" intoxicant | 38 |
| ___ cube (popular 60's-70's puzzle) | 43 |
| "I was ___ I could . . . " | 36 |
| Like the "Captain Phillips" hijackers | 47 |
| Language often heard in Djibouti | 32 |
| Dweller along the Horn of Africa | 32 |
| Certain dweller along the Horn of Africa | 40 |
| Site of a 1990's U.N. action | 32 |
| Republic in extreme eastern Africa | 34 |
| Civil war locale beginning in 1991 | 34 |
| "Black Hawk Down" backdrop | 36 |
| ''Black Hawk Down'' setting | 43 |
| Remark from one awed by generators | 34 |
| "Brave New World" ingestions | 38 |
| "___ Enchanted Evening" | 33 |
| "You've got ___ nerve!" | 37 |